America's National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark Act
Introduced Mar 6, 2025 by Rep. Robert F. Onder
Both chambers passed it. It's headed to the President to be signed or vetoed.
This bill designates the America’s National Churchill Museum, including the Winston Churchill Memorial, located at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, as the America’s National Churchill Museum National Historic Landmark. (Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave a speech titled The Sinews of Peace, also widely known as the Iron Curtain Speech, at the college in 1946.)
The bill permits the Department of the Interior to enter into cooperative agreements with public and private entities for the purposes of protecting historic resources at the landmark and providing educational and interpretive facilities for the public. Interior may provide technical and financial assistance to partner entities.
The bill also directs Interior to conduct a special resource study to evaluate the national significance of the landmark and to determine the suitability and feasibility of designating it as a unit of the National Park System. The study must consider alternatives to that designation for the preservation, protection, and interpretation of the landmark, and must include cost estimates associated with identified alternatives.
Summary by the Congressional Research Service.
No recorded roll-call vote on this bill — it may have passed by voice vote or unanimous consent, which don't record individual votes.
- Sep 29, 2026Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5140)
- Sep 29, 2026Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S5140)
- Mar 4, 2026Received in the Senate, read twice.
- Mar 3, 2026Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- Mar 3, 2026On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2356)
- Mar 3, 2026Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H2356)
- Mar 3, 2026DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 1945.
- Mar 3, 2026Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H2356-2357)
- Mar 3, 2026Mr. Westerman moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.
- Feb 24, 2026Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 442.
- Feb 24, 2026Reported by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 119-517.
- Feb 11, 2026Ordered to be Reported by Unanimous Consent.
- Feb 11, 2026Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- Feb 11, 2026Subcommittee on Federal Lands Discharged
- Jul 16, 2025Subcommittee Hearings Held
- Jul 9, 2025Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
- Mar 6, 2025Referred to the House Committee on Natural Resources.
- Mar 6, 2025Introduced in House